Turns formerly and currently incarcerated men and women in the NYC area into entrepreneurs-in-training by pairing them with senior business executives and providing them with a range of other services and opportunities including parenting education

This year, Exodus plans to open an apartment building in Poughkeepsie with 24 hour support including meals, permanent housing planning, and health, employment, and educational services. To learn more, contact Exodus.

Support For Families of Incarcerated Individuals

Helps children of incarcerated people avoid future incarceration and empowers them through mentorship and afterschool programs. Also provides children with mental health services and transportation to correctional facilities to visit loved ones.

NYPL facilitates literacy workshops for incarcerated parents where parents can create audio books for their children. In the end of the program, parents present the audiobooks to their children on Family Day. Workshops are facilitated in all NYC Department of Correction facilities including women’s facility Rose M. Singer Center (Mommy & Me) and federal prison Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Resources for Formerly Incarcerated LGBTQ+ People

A group of people with HIV and allies who speak out against wrongful imprisonment of people with HIV; also works with a group of HIV positive formerly and currently incarcerated people to develop a handbook of health advice for currently incarcerated people who have HIV